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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(b) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(c) Animals attacking their camp.
(d) White men fighting each other on the beach.

2. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.

3. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They offered them poisoned food.
(b) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(c) They pretended to be gods.
(d) They told them there was good land further down the coast.

4. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Arthur Carberry.
(b) Constable Riggs.
(c) Captain James Stirling.
(d) Captain Freeman.

5. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They have been around for a very long time.
(b) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(c) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(d) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

2. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?

3. How do they justify this?

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

5. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

(see the answer key)

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